From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 21:07:42 EST
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:46:44 -0700, jbrush_at_aros.net wrote:
>I am looking around for another 760E/EL/ED and when I check on the IBM
>site, I see that only the 760E comes with an L2 Cache, which I consider
>very important for speed.
>
>On ebay, and several other like sites, the specs on the machines say all
>of the 760's have L2 Cache.
>
>Any opinions on who is right, and who is fibbing ? :-) I have run an PC
>with the L2 cache disable and it turns a 166Mhz into a 486SX-25 so I don't
>want a machine without the cache.
>
>Just wondering out loud.
>
>Sure is slow in here lately <g>
>
AFAIK, all the 760Ex models have 256K of L2 cache. Not positive on the
760C/CD, but I think they should have the same amount also.
The way cache, or L2, works is that frequently used code is stored
and retrieved there so the CPU doesn't have to fetch it from the main memory,
making programs run faster and more efficient. Then you have 16K (or is it 32K) in the
CPU, which would be L1 cache.
Paul
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